Model Editors

Model Editors are the UI components designed to assist editing your models and to maintain the state for a given model or resource in your VDB. When editing a model, the model will be opened in a Model Editor. Editing a property value, for instance, will require an open editor prior to actually changing the property.

Any number of editors can be open at once, but only one can be active at a time. The main menu bar and toolbar for Dimension may contain operations that are applicable to the active editor ( and removed when editor becomes inactive).

Tabs in the editor area indicate the names of models that are currently open for editing. An asterisk (*) indicates that an editor has unsaved changes.

By default, editors are stacked in the editors area, but you can choose to tile them vertically, and or horizontally in order to view multiple models simultaneously.

Model Editors also contain sub-editors which provide different views of the data or parts of data within a model. Thesesub-editors, specific to model types, is discussed in the next section.

Sub Editors

> The following sub-editors are used in Dimension Designer:

> - Diagram Editor - All models except XML Schema models
> - Table Editor - All models
> - Simple Datatypes Editor - XML Schema models only
> - Semantic Editor - XML Schema models only
> - Source Editor - XML Schema models only

Object Editors

> In addition to general Editors for models, there are detailed editors designed for editing specific model object types. These "object" editors include:

> - Transformation Editor- Manages Transformation SQL for Relational View Base Tables & Procedures and XML Service View Operations.
> - Choice Editor - Manages properties and critieria for XML choice elements in XML Document View models.
> - Input Set Editor - Manages Input Set parameters used between Mapping Classes in XML Document View models.
> - Recursion Editor - Manages recursion properties for recursive XML Elements in XML Document View models.
> - Operation Editor - Manages SQL and Input Variables for Web Service Operations

Miscellaneous

> Other...

Related Topics

- Create a New VDB
- Dimension Designer Perspectives
- Web Service Advisor view
- Setting Your Designer Preferences
- Getting Started with Metamatrix Dimension

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